Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 2 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 3 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 5 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 6 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 7 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 8 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 9 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 10 | It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure . |
| 11 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |